Fall is beautiful here in Michigan. I had been wanting to return to Loda Lake once the trees changed colors, so today was the day. We never go anywhere the same way twice as we love to explore all the back country and snap pictures as we go. We were not disappointed. We found a couple of real nice Federal Forest campgrounds on lakes with hiking trails.
Once we found Loda Lake, I was a bit disappointed as the breeze had come up so the lake had ripples and the reflections were not as spectacular as I had hoped.
It was the last weekend Woodlands on the Lake would be open, so we stopped in there to us the pool and hot tub.
Our entertainment book had a coupon for an ugly burger, so of course we had to head for Sparta and try it out. We headed home tired, but full and happy.
Loda Lake National Wildflower Sanctuary
Loda Lake is an area that includes a small spring-fed lake, a bog-like wetland area, a creek and riparian marshy areas, oak forest, pine plantations, and an early successional old farm site. Botanist Clayton Bazuin noted, “Loda Lake is ideally suited as a wildflower sanctuary and although near one of Michigan’s busy highways, can still be a natural reservoir of wild plants. This is due to the large number of ecological associations it affords in which they may survive".
Loda Lake is the only Wildflower sanctuary in the National Forest System, a project supported both financially and botanically by the Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan for over seventy years.
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